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  Re: Calling POV from an external program  
From: andrel
Date: 14 Feb 2003 16:48:26
Message: <3E4D64B5.4020901@amc.uva.nl>
i often call POV from Matlab, what i do is that i select the
'exit from POV' from the 'render/on completion' menu
The only drawback is that POV has to restart everytime.

	Andrel

Chuck Roberts wrote:
> I am working on a POV texture generator which calls POV to preview
> the texture. I'm using Delphi 6pe. How do I know when POV is done
> with the image so I can display the BMP file of the texture preview?
> Is there a way to check if the file is locked or in use by another
> app? 
> 
> If I check just if the file exists, the file could be half done and
> I don't want to load that. 
> 
> Thanks.
>


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